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Effete Snob

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23. But for one thing

Fri Aug 6, 2021, 10:10 AM

Aug 2021

You don't choose what you believe.

You do choose what you expose yourself to, but you never decided to believe something or not.

People want to believe they choose their beliefs, but have you ever simply decided "I'm going to believe X", or "I'm going to stop believing X".

I'll tell you what, just as an experiment, for the next five minutes, believe that I'm a rare land octopus and I've found my way into a library internet terminal to post this message. Just for five minutes. You can go back to all of your beliefs and disbeliefs when the five minutes is up.

Can you do that? You can say you can, but if you are honest with yourself, you can't really decide that you are going to believe something relatively innocuous for the next five minutes only. You can't, because you just don't believe it, and you can't control what you believe.

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Another great idea! luvs2sing Aug 2021 #41

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But for one thing Effete Snob Aug 2021 #23

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"by what they expose themselves to" Effete Snob Aug 2021 #39

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